This is a hard email for me to compose. Mazzie and I went to the vet appointment today. She has been urinating in the house at night a month (again). We finally isolated that it was her. She would get off the dog couch and urinate on the floor. Then, she would urinate on her bed she was sleeping in. Last night we diapered her and she did not urinate. We discussed this with the vet who stated that it was behavioral. We spoke of cushions, diabetes, thyroid, and addisons today. She has a healthy coat, no pot belly appearance, not drinking excessively, not urinating repeatedly during the day and not asking to go out alot. She tried to bite my 11 year old son last week and she snapped at my cousin's 20 month old last month when he accidentally stepped on her. THe vet looked in the records and he had that Mazzie tried to bite me twice in 2007. I have vague memories of that. Here's the kicker--she tried to bite the vet 3 times today during the exam. She is not like that. He determined that she possibly is starting to get how she was in January with the sensitivity in her bladder so he gave her amoxicillan and a shot of prednisone. He also gave her pills of amoxicillan and prednisone. He then said, At the Animal Hospital, I will euthanize a pet for something that cannot be cured or for an animal that bites humans or other animals only. At what point are we at? I told him she has snapped at the other dogs, but has not made contact with any person or dog. He told me to never trust her again with a child. That just breaks my heart. I have so many cousins which have newborns and up until age 8 kids and dozens of them that get together where our dogs are always present. We talked more and decided that we needed to try to help Mazzie more in putting her on prozac (generic) to be filled at the pharmacy. That I need to do today, but as I sit her typing, I feel like I am out of my body. I can't have a dog that bites little kids. I pray she never gets to that point. I don't want to have to make a decision. Today is a horrible day. The vet said it could be why she was given to the humane society and that the owners just never told the truth. What am I going to do? (Mazzie had the full work up on her bladder in January and had things set out to Cornell--negative for cancer)<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>DRool to all in need,<br>Dee, <br>Maggie, Mazzie, Oliver, Cooper,& Harvey<br>